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  • Somewhere in. the distant reaches of his childhood, when his own understanding of reality clashed with the assertions of others, with their arbitrary orders and contradictory demands, he gave in to so craven a fear of dependence that he renounced his rational faculty.†   (source)
  • It is true that we are not yet at open war with the Black Land, and there are some, close to the king's ear, that speak craven counsels; but war is coming.†   (source)
  • There is nothing, except venomous reprisals, that cravens who fled their freshman year could cast on the history of the Institute.†   (source)
  • We shared a wall between our sideshow tents, venally baring ourselves to the curious and craven.†   (source)
  • You mean to say that your cooks have all cravenly left for their homes?†   (source)
  • I did an inexplicable and, I'm afraid, craven thing then.†   (source)
  • Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.†   (source)
  • They are more accepted in France, where the doctors are less prone to craven orthodoxies.†   (source)
  • He is a pig, and a hopeless craven as well, if what you say is true.†   (source)
  • Happily these rumours were unfounded; but how craven — how callous!†   (source)
  • Better than you, you chinless craven, Tyrion thought.†   (source)
  • "He's a liar and a craven and anyhow he's a stag, not a lion."†   (source)
  • "The man is craven," Lord Hunter declared.†   (source)
  • If you are truly so craven, why are you here?†   (source)
  • A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear.†   (source)
  • Craven or not, Samwell Tarly had found the courage to accept his fate like a man.†   (source)
  • "Craven," he said, "rhymes nicely with raven."†   (source)
  • Qotho screamed taunts at him, calling him a craven, a milk man, a eunuch in an iron suit.†   (source)
  • "Nobody likes cravens," he said uncomfortably.†   (source)
  • Are you telling me those prancing cravens will let me win?†   (source)
  • She resorts to craven, apologetic giggling, which annoys them further, and me also.†   (source)
  • The gold cloaks say he turned craven and you led a sortie in his place.†   (source)
  • Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.†   (source)
  • Lommy and the rest were looking at her, and she did not want to seem craven in front of them.†   (source)
  • Arya rode Craven down to the docks to get a better look.†   (source)
  • From this day forth, you will not call yourself a craven.†   (source)
  • Harvey Wellman was the district attorney in Craven County.†   (source)
  • And Lord Sweet huffed, "The craven sees an outlaw behind every blade of grass."†   (source)
  • Stubborn or craven, what does it matter?†   (source)
  • The archmaesters are all craven at heart.†   (source)
  • "The harpy is a craven thing," Daario Naharis said when he saw it.†   (source)
  • He is not the Weeping Man, but he is no craven either.†   (source)
  • From this day forth, you will not call yourself a craven.†   (source)
  • I'm fat and I'm weak and I'm craven, but I did my duty.†   (source)
  • Who is this lowborn craven? those eyes asked.†   (source)
  • She could ride off on Craven and take Stranger too.†   (source)
  • Lord Gyles is too sickly to run and too craven to fight.†   (source)
  • Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?†   (source)
  • "A craven's knife can slay a queen as easily as a hero's.†   (source)
  • I killed my king:' "The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.†   (source)
  • "So rather than look craven, you will dance to Lord Tywin's pipes?" she threw back.†   (source)
  • "The queen's men are saying that the King-Beyond-the-Wall died craven.†   (source)
  • If you are too craven to face this turncloak king, we can return you to your ice cell.†   (source)
  • The man was craven, but the favor Lady Lysa showed him made him insolent.†   (source)
  • "Aye," the wildling repeated, "he's the craven killed the Halfhand.†   (source)
  • Under that sweaty flesh beats a heart as craven and cringing as …. well …. yours.†   (source)
  • "You'll choke on them before you get any answers from me, craven.†   (source)
  • "Herons are craven," the big man put in.†   (source)
  • And she offered plenty of places for a craven to hide.†   (source)
  • Only fat and weak, and the greatest craven in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • Is that what troubles you, that some fool might call you craven?†   (source)
  • "I could," said Sam, sounding as gloomy as Dolorous Edd, "if I wasn't too craven to face them."†   (source)
  • One day in his bitterness he called Bael a craven who preyed only on the weak.†   (source)
  • The singer had to find a rhyme for craven, so …†   (source)
  • Now cravens like you want hard coin for a bite of wormy apple.†   (source)
  • Bran couldn't say it, though; he did not want Jojen to think he was craven.†   (source)
  • Not by his own hand, no. He is too fat and craven to do his own killing.†   (source)
  • Those who remained behind are the cravens, old men, and green boys.†   (source)
  • I know which lords are brave and which are craven, which are loyal and which are venal.†   (source)
  • She would have to sell Craven, and hope she brought enough.†   (source)
  • One of Lord Beric's cravens?" called the knight in the spiked helm.†   (source)
  • Craven, Jaime thought, as Brienne fought to stifle her moans.†   (source)
  • "Some might call that craven," Lord Peasebury replied.†   (source)
  • "They're thieves and cravens, and they have green teeth from eating frogs."†   (source)
  • Are you a craven as well as a killer, Brienne?†   (source)
  • The sick ones and the weak ones, the slugabeds and cravens, get them on their bloody feet.†   (source)
  • She liked Craven at first look, asked Arya how she'd come by her, and grinned at her answer.†   (source)
  • Poison was for cravens, women, and Dornishmen.†   (source)
  • "I'd thought the man craven, but the day he confronted Aerys he found some courage somewhere.†   (source)
  • We got no room for cravens,' and they buggered off and left me, and thousands more besides.†   (source)
  • But the man is craven, and will not come to us.†   (source)
  • Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens.†   (source)
  • The Hound watched her saddle Craven through eyes bright with fever.†   (source)
  • Those who die heroic deaths are long remembered, thieves and drunks and cravens soon forgotten.†   (source)
  • And Craven might have been a coward, but she was young and strong as well.†   (source)
  • His cigarettes, she notices, are also British—Craven A's.†   (source)
  • I needed some way of telling this Alex Thomas that Laura was only fourteen, but I couldn't think of anything that wouldn't make her angry Alex Thomas produced a packet of cigarettes from his shirt pocket — Craven A's, as I recall.†   (source)
  • No matter how often Jon told himself that his place was here now, with his new brothers on the Wall, he still felt craven.†   (source)
  • What if they think we're craven too?"†   (source)
  • Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.†   (source)
  • "My lord father would never have sent men off to die while he huddled like a craven behind the walls of Winterfell," he said, all Robb the Lord.†   (source)
  • "Craven!" the Greatjon thundered.†   (source)
  • "He truly is craven," said Grenn.†   (source)
  • "…. sooner die than live like that," muttered one, his father's namesake Eddard, and his brother Torrhen said likely the boy was broken inside as well as out, too craven to take his own life.†   (source)
  • Ser Alliser raged and threatened and called them all cravens and women and worse, yet Sam remained unhurt.†   (source)
  • Robert and his council of cravens and flatterers would beggar the realm if left unchecked …. or, worse, sell it to the Lannisters in payment of their loans.†   (source)
  • Women, cravens …. and eunuchs.†   (source)
  • The man had proved himself a craven.†   (source)
  • His manner vacillated between hostility and a craven sort of fawning-like a stud mongrel that has been kicked too often.†   (source)
  • The cravenly ones will sit behind their walls waiting to see how the wind rises and who is likely to triumph.†   (source)
  • The terrible Lord Varamyr had gone craven, but he could not bear that she should know that, so he told the spearwife that his name was Haggon.†   (source)
  • He cursed himself for his gullibility and wished in panic for something like a mask or a pair of dark glasses and a false mustache to disguise him, or for a forceful, deep voice like Colonel Cathcart's and broad, muscular shoulders and biceps to enable him to step outside fearlessly and vanquish his malevolent persecutors with an overbearing authority and self-confidence that would make them all quail and slink away cravenly in repentance.†   (source)
  • You who are craven enough to believe that you can make terms with a mystic by giving in to his extortionsthere is no way to buy him off, the bribe he wants is your life, as slowly or as fast as you are willing to give it in-and the monster he seeks to bribe is the hidden blank-out in his mind, which drives him to kill in order not to learn that the death he desires is his own.†   (source)
  • Her parents had moved here after her father had taken a job as hospital administrator at Craven Regional Medical Center.†   (source)
  • I have always been a craven, but I was never an oathbreaker till now If Maester Aemon had not died, Sam could have asked him what to do.†   (source)
  • Boros is a craven, Meryn is old and slow, your brother is maimed, the other two are off in Dome, and Osmund is a bloody Kettleblack.†   (source)
  • Ryman Frey had been a fool, a craven, and a sot, and no one was like to miss him much, least of all his fellow Freys.†   (source)
  • He had none of Sam's craven blood.†   (source)
  • And if Dareon preferred a fire and a cup of mulled wine to stale bread and the company of a weeping woman, a fat craven, and a sick old man, who could blame him?†   (source)
  • And even if Ser Osmund proved an utter craven, he would be no worse than Ser Boros Blount, currently residing in a dungeon at Rosby.†   (source)
  • Don't be so craven, he thought.†   (source)
  • No man likes to look craven in the sight of his fellows, so they'll fight brave enough at the start, when it's all warhorns and blowing banners.†   (source)
  • Slayer, you are such a craven.†   (source)
  • "I may be craven, but I'm not stupid.†   (source)
  • A sot, a fool, and a craven.†   (source)
  • "No craven's peace!"†   (source)
  • Well, at the least you are no craven.†   (source)
  • Clever, craven Lyseni.†   (source)
  • Dywen said Craster was a kinslayer, liar, raper, and craven, and hinted that he trafficked with slavers and demons.†   (source)
  • She had two drunkards and a craven too.†   (source)
  • I am still a craven, Jon.†   (source)
  • After that the girl stopped pestering her, and Arya spent her days grooming Craven and Stranger or walking in the woods.†   (source)
  • If you were a man, I would kill you for that, but my sword is made of too fine a steel to besmirch with craven's blood."†   (source)
  • "The great pig Manderly was too craven to leave White Harbor, or we would have brought him as well," shouted Red Helm.†   (source)
  • "This is craven," Ser Rodrik said.†   (source)
  • The Halfhand swore he'd see the craven dead first, but the wolf ripped Qhorin half t' pieces and this one opened his throat."†   (source)
  • Are you still a craven?†   (source)
  • He is craven to the bone, that one.†   (source)
  • He is no craven.†   (source)
  • One day I'll ride away on Craven, and he won't be able to catch me, she thought, but she never did that either.†   (source)
  • Cravens and traitors.†   (source)
  • Victarion was no craven, but no more was he a fool; he could not defeat three hundred ships with fifty-four.†   (source)
  • Better a craven than a cannibal.†   (source)
  • A craven's trick."†   (source)
  • The Hound had turned craven, she heard it said; at the height of the battle, he got so drunk the Imp had to take his men.†   (source)
  • They had two now, Stranger and a sorrel palfrey mare Arya had named Craven, because Sandor said she'd likely run off from the Twins the same as them.†   (source)
  • They are craven creatures.†   (source)
  • I know you are no craven.†   (source)
  • Are you craven?†   (source)
  • No man calls me craven before my king!†   (source)
  • There are good men and loyal among the new recruits, but also more brutes, sots, cravens, and traitors than you'd care to know.†   (source)
  • Hot Pie was stupid and craven, but he'd been with her all the way from King's Landing and she'd gotten used to him.†   (source)
  • Quentyn the Craven?†   (source)
  • The wildling stared at him through the eyeholes of his helm, and said, "The free folk have no need of cravens."†   (source)
  • Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes …. we have plenty, as do you.†   (source)
  • Are you a craven who turned your cloak from fear, or is there another reason that brings you to my tent?†   (source)
  • The sellswords threw taunts at their backs as they pushed through the doors of the Merchant's House, mocking them as bloodless cravens and frightened girls.†   (source)
  • He could not understand why the gods would want to take Jon Snow and Bannen and leave him, craven and clumsy as he was.†   (source)
  • The man is craven, and a good thing.†   (source)
  • No man had ever called him craven.†   (source)
  • That I am a turncloak, and craven.†   (source)
  • So craven you killed an Other.†   (source)
  • So why do I feel so craven?†   (source)
  • I've proven I'm no craven.†   (source)
  • "You're not craven like me."†   (source)
  • But never craven.†   (source)
  • I'm a craven.†   (source)
  • Are you so craven?†   (source)
  • Craven, craven, craven.†   (source)
  • Fight, craven.†   (source)
  • "I have no sword," he returned, "but if I did, I'd stick it through your belly and hack the balls off those four cravens."†   (source)
  • Mitty looked at him and at the craven figure of Benbow, who drank, and at the grave, uncertain faces of the two great specialists.†   (source)
  • Whatever you are afraid of, in your craven apprehension, Let me ask you at the least to put on pleas ant faces, And give a hearty welcome to our good Archbishop.†   (source)
  • Must I slink like a craven because I've lost the love of one man?†   (source)
  • A horrible quaking, craven fear possessed her soul.†   (source)
  • What did he care about a mean, haunted, craven-faced criminal?†   (source)
  • The vigilantes were bolstering up the craven Frenchy.†   (source)
  • "What is the matter?" said Dr. Craven, turning to look at her.†   (source)
  • Dr. Craven turned reproachfully to Mrs. Medlock.†   (source)
  • It was the eyes which made Mr. Craven gasp for breath.†   (source)
  • "I am sorry to hear you were ill last night, my boy," Dr. Craven said a trifle nervously.†   (source)
  • When he had gone away Mr. Craven sat a few moments holding them in his hand and looking at the lake.†   (source)
  • "And the nurse, of course?" suggested Dr. Craven.†   (source)
  • "It—it was the garden Mr. Craven hates," said Mary nervously.†   (source)
  • Of course Dr. Craven had been sent for the morning after Colin had had his tantrum.†   (source)
  • "What is this?" said Dr. Craven, coming forward.†   (source)
  • "What will Dr. Craven say?" broke out Mary.†   (source)
  • But there must have been one ten years ago. because Mr. Craven buried the key.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven put his hands on both the boy's shoulders and held him still.†   (source)
  • "I'm thinking that I am rather sorry for Dr. Craven."†   (source)
  • Dr. Craven is coming to see you at once, if you'll allow him.†   (source)
  • Craven was a very lovely young lady," he had gone on rather hesitatingly.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven sent me to bring her to him in his study.†   (source)
  • "An' she's Mr. Craven's—but I'm to do the housemaid's work up here an' wait on you a bit.†   (source)
  • Craven went off his head like when he was born.†   (source)
  • "This is one of his good days, sir," she said to Dr. Craven, who dropped in to inspect him.†   (source)
  • Mr. Craven, he won't be troubled about any-thin' when he's here, an' he's nearly always away.†   (source)
  • "Captain Lennox and his wife died of the cholera," Mr. Craven had said in his short, cold way.†   (source)
  • "Why did Mr. Craven hate the garden?" she said.†   (source)
  • "I am not sure that I can allow it," answered Dr. Craven.†   (source)
  • Craven ordered Mrs. Medlock to get 'em in London.†   (source)
  • The man held a salver with some letters on it and he waited quietly until Mr. Craven took them.†   (source)
  • Colin looked fretful and kept his strange black-lashed eyes fixed on Dr. Craven's face.†   (source)
  • Morrison gave me five shillings and Mrs. Medlock gave me some money from Mr. Craven.†   (source)
  • She saw that in a moment Dr. Craven's serious face relaxed into a relieved smile.†   (source)
  • And in the midst of the fun the door opened and in walked Dr. Craven and Mrs. Medlock.†   (source)
  • Dr. Craven sat down by him and felt his pulse and looked at him curiously.†   (source)
  • "I'll send her away if she dares to say a word about such a thing," said Master Craven grandly.†   (source)
  • She'd never spoke to him before, but Mrs. Craven had been to our cottage two or three times.†   (source)
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